The discussion of 'Matrix Fight Night' has been raging among Nepalese for a week now. Fighter Ravindra Dhant is suddenly at the peak of discussion after his extraordinary performance. His game is being appreciated not only nationally but also on the international stage.

The flow of congratulating Ravindra, who became the first player from Nepal to become an international mixed martial arts (MMA) champion, has not stopped yet. While congratulations of the President, Prime Minister and former Prime Minister are being flown in, many municipalities of Bajhang have also announced to honor him with cash prizes. 

Rabindra Matrix Fight Night (MFN) became the bantamweight champion after defeating an Indian competitor in a competition held in Noida, India on the night of July 17. Ravindra defeated the previous undefeated champion Chunreng Koren of India . In the third round, the referee stopped the fight and declared Ravindra the winner by TKO after Koren was in crisis due to continuous blows by Ravindra.

Ravindra is sharing a video on social media of Koren, known for his powerful wrestling and aggressive power, known as 'The Indian Rhino', and many are calling him 'Bajhangi Tiger'.

His father Hare Dhant and mother Thepadidevi in Bithadchir Rural Municipality of Bajhang were also watching this scene on the mobile phones of neighboring youths. Thepadi screamed and cried when the competitor fought Ravindra in the ring and threw punches. When Rabindra dominated Koren, father Hare used to clap along with his neighbours. "The heart kept beating until 3 o'clock in the night," said Hare's father to Kantipur, "after he won the game, we couldn't sleep more happily."

Rabindra Dhant MFN Bantamweight Champion of Nepal

The next morning, he started getting calls saying that his son named the country. At his house near Jai Prithvi Highway, some unknown people come to meet him and congratulate him. Hare says, "Everyone is saying that the son has done well". Named us too . The name of the country was played. Very happy.' 

Jure's opportunity in Delhi

Rabindra's story of rising from zero and reaching the pinnacle of success is no less than the story of a movie. Brought up in the barn of Bajhang, he is now shining the name of Nepal in the international arena. Who was working as a laborer in Pithoragarh, India 10 years ago.

57-year-old Hare Dhanta from a low-income family has three sons and two daughters. Rabindra Maila is . The elder Chandra, who has been making a living by farming for 6 months of the year and going to various places in India from a young age, is in Bangalore with his daughter-in-law. Father Hare expected the same from Rabindra and as soon as he passed his SLC in 2070, he took him with him to Pithoragarh, to do pallidari (wage).

Ravindra worked there like his father, brother and other relatives from breaking stones to loading-unloading cement sacks in vehicles, carrying heavy loads, burying electric poles, cutting grass and farming . After working for about two years, the family sent him to Delhi in 2073 after he did not earn as expected. Rabindra went to the capital of India with his friend and cousin Haris Dhanta. 

Ravindra, who was working as a helper in a plywood company, had such an opportunity there, which was his dream since childhood. When he was in the village and in Pithoragarh, there was no atmosphere in which he would tell his family. He was under family pressure to earn by suffering and make the family's livelihood easy. After he went to work in Delhi, he became somewhat independent, but he started learning martial arts secretly so that the message that his son went to earn money would not reach home. 

'He went to Delhi with me . We stayed in the same room for two years,' Haris said. I found out only after nine months.' Haris says he came to know only when he was participating in a competition at the Indira Gandhi International Sports Stadium in Delhi. "Be it breaking rocks or lifting weights, he took it as exercise rather than work," said Haris, who has been a classmate since class one. After all, he left after fulfilling his dream.'

Ravindra, who has won all 15 of the 15 amateur competitions in India, has played 10 professional matches in China, Russia, Nepal, India and Thailand so far. In which he won 9 competitions . 

The coaches of India, who knew Rabindra's ability closely, wanted him to participate in international competitions on behalf of India. But Rabindra had the guts to enter the ring with the flag of his own country.

One day in the year 2076, a coach approached him with a proposal to get Indian citizenship and to play in the name of India. Rabindra flatly rejected that offer. "If I get some work, I will play with the country's flag, if not  I left Delhi and came to Kathmandu a few days after that, saying that I would go to the Gulf country to work,' says Rabindra, recalling the days when he was struggling in Kathmandu, 'luckily, I met Divij dai here . It is because of him that I have been able to achieve this achievement.' Ravindra said that he met Divij while looking for a place to teach mixed martial arts in Kathmandu and that he was the one who was covering all his expenses. 

Now the dream of UFC

In the dream of becoming a world champion, Rabindra kept ignoring his studies, family wishes and his own age-related desires. Now his goal has become another - the world famous tournament of mixed martial arts UFC (Ultimate Fighting Championship) . He knows very well how much his parents' hearts panic when they see him beating his heart while watching

 . ``When you see a fight, your heart breaks. If you win now, when will you leave, leave quickly,' he tells about the worries of his parents, 'he is happy to have won. But inside you are afraid that something will happen to you.' 

He has brought two younger sisters and one brother to Kathmandu to get rid of his family's complaints. Amidst the stress of preparing for his game, paying room rent and raising his siblings' education expenses, he is determined to quit playing in the UFC one day. 

has become the charioteer of his resolve, Divij Piya Lama . Lama, who is a mixed martial arts instructor, is not only training him, he is also spending the income from the gym house he runs on preparing for his own game . "Preparing a game costs seven to eight lakhs," Lama said, "I have been bearing all that for four or five years." He says that he is doing so because he thinks that Rabindra can make the country known to the world. I myself am an MMA player. Rabindra has the ability to work hard and determination. That is extremely rare,' Lama said. He says that he has not received any support from the government for the development of national talent and he does not expect to get any support.